45 X 1.5 + 1,000 + 750 + 10,000 = 11,817.5 which rounds up to 11,818 and in pictures is a nice photo of London sky by sofiagk in the Londonist Flickr pool.

This Week In London’s History

Monday - 26th October 1992: A 'Computer Aided Dispatch' system is introduced at London’s ambulance service. The system does not fare well, and is blamed for massive delays in assigning ambulances to calls (and reports of up to 30 deaths as a result).

Tuesday - 27th October 1986: The City of London experiences 'Big Bang Day' as the financial markets are deregulated.
Wednesday - 28th October 1903: Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh is born in Hampstead. He would become a successful writer.
Thursday - 29th October 1986: The M25 ‘London orbital’ motorway is officially opened by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at a ceremony at the last section to be completed (junctions 22 and 23 in Hertfordshire).
Friday - 30th October 1883: A group known as the Fenian Dynamiters detonates a bomb on the Metropolitan Railway, injuring 62 people.

London Quote Of The Week

... the Metropolis of Great-Britain, founded before the City of Rome, walled by Constantine the Great, no ways inferior to the greatest in Europe for Riches and Greatness...